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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Breve
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Profile
2. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Percentile
Breve
Funding
Age equivalent
3. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Closed Syllable
Visual Learners
Affix
Cognition
4. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Analytic
Base Word
Syntax
Trigraph
5. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
MSL
Criterion-Referenced Test
Joe Torgesen
ESL
6. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Attention
Expressive language
Semantics
Quadrigraph
7. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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8. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Chall's Stage 3
Percentile
Derived Score
Grapheme
9. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Letter naming Chart
Phonological Awareness
Reading Comprehension Support
Morphology
10. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
WRAT
Phonology
Six basic types of syllables
Morphology
11. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Analytic
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Academic Achievement Tests
Phonics approach
12. Academic Language Therapy Association
Breve
Vowel Digraph
ALTA
Criterion-Referenced Test
13. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Direct Instruction
Accuracy
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
14. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Middle English
Derivative
Standard Scores
Impulsivity
15. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Phonics approach
Phonology
Six basic types of syllables
16. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Battery
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Raw score
Suffix
17. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Closed Syllable
Syntax
Derivative
WIATII
18. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Attention
Morpheme
Standardized test
Whole Language
19. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Norm-referenced tests
Simultaneous teaching
IDEA
Progress Monitoring
20. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Six basic types of syllables
Vr
IMSLEC
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
21. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Chall's Stage 0
Frank Smith
Visual Processing
Standard deviation
22. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Texas Education Code 38.003
V-e
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Pre-English
23. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
VC
Derived Score
Standard score
Visual Processing
24. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Frank Smith
MSLE
Diphthong
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
25. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Funding
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Norm-Referenced Test
Cedilla
26. Wide Range Achievement Test
Chall's Stage 3
Adolf Kusmaul
WRAT
GORT
27. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Suffix
Phonology
Norm-referenced tests
Chall's Stage 5
28. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
V >
Universal Screening
29. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
IMSLEC
V-e
30. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Composite Score
Affix
ESL
31. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
NICHD
WIATII
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Components of Reading Instruction
32. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Derived Score
Greek layer of language
Criterion-Referenced Test
Old English
33. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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34. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Cognitive Assessment
Chall's Stage 4
Frank Smith
Phonology
35. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Social language
Cognitive Assessment
Chall's Stage 5
36. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Universal Screening
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Auditory Learners
Criterion referenced tests
37. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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38. Multisensory Structured Language
Criterion-Referenced Test
Mathew Effect
MSL
V >
39. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Ability
Simultaneous teaching
Phonemic Awareness
Achievement test
40. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Mastery level
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
41. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Reading Comprehension Support
Macron
Profile
IDEA
42. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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43. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Modification
Impulsivity
Syllable Instruction
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
44. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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45. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Old English
Fluency
Chall's Stage 2
Whole Language
46. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Criterion referenced tests
Reliability
Cognitive Assessment
Curriculum referenced tests
47. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Norm-referenced tests
Phoneme
Visual Learners
Texas Education Code 28.06
48. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Tilde
IEP
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Consonant
49. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Phonics approach
Receptive language
Top-down Reading Approach
Academic Achievement Tests
50. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Samuel T. Orton
Latin layer of language
Phonology
VV